Posted on 11/14/2014 10:34:22 AM PST by C19fan
NO, Romney has no intentions on running............
I'm disappointed that people constantly fall for these types of articles which are nothing but crap thrown on the wall hoping some sticks in an attempt to create controversy where none actually exists..........Sheesh!
Romney's already said he wasn't running -- or planning to run.
Several times, in fact.
Harry Reid is in fact an exceptionally devout and devoted Mormon, and is headed for God hood.
No. Only hard core conservatives care about Gruber and they already don’t like Romney. Plus it’s over a year before any votes start getting counted, and American voters have very short memories. Gruber-gate is nothing more than a semi-entertaining sideline that won’t actually effect anything.
***What “nascent campaign”?Romney’s already said he wasn’t running — or planning to run.***
Romney keeps taking the actions and preparations of someone who is running.
Aug. 26
For the first time, Romney hedges, saying “circumstances can change,” after being pressed by radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt.
In a Politico article, Hewitt and Robert O’Brien said, “the enthusiasm for another Romney run went from 35 mph to 80 mph overnight,” after the comment.
Sept. 4
Romney writes a Washington Post op-ed titled, “The need for a mighty U.S. military.”
Sept. 7
He appears on “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace” and criticizes Obama’s foreign policy. The same day, Obama appears on “Meet the Press.”
Sept. 23
When asked during an appearance on Fox News Channel with Neil Cavuto whether her husband would run in 2016 if Jeb Bush did not, Ann Romney said, “Well, we will see, won’t we, Neil?”
Sept. 25
Romney is described by the Washington Examiner as “talking with advisers, consulting with his family, keeping a close eye on the emerging ’16 Republican field, and carefully weighing the pluses and minuses of another run.”
Sept. 30
New York Times magazine publishes a story titled “Mitt isn’t ready to call it quits.” When asked about a 2016 run, Romney says, “I have nothing to add to the story. We’ve got a lot of people looking at the race. We’ll see what happens.”
Really? Well that clinches it. He must have been running. Why else would he write an op-ed, rather than hiding from sight in the Mitt cave?
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"I'm not running for president in 2016. I'm going to be supporting someone who represents the practical conservatives that I think we need," the former Massachusetts governor said. May 9, 2014
In a "Fox News Sunday" interview this weekend, Romney said once again that, "I'm not running. I'm not planning on running." September 9, 2014
“I’m not running, I’m not planning on running and I’ve got nothing new on that story,” Romney told Mark Halperin. October 6, 2014
Ann Romney told the Los Angeles Times, “Not only Mitt and I are done but the kids are done. Done. Done. Done.” October 14, 2014
"I'm not running," Romney said during an interview on "Fox News Sunday." "I'm not planning on running. I'm not going to add anything else to that story." November 2, 2014
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Politicians are a little cagey about things like this, and Mitt may have appeared to be tempted and wavering sometimes, but after all those denials that he's running or planning to run, I really doubt he would have run but for Grubergate.
You can try to cover for him if you want and attempt to dilute and divert criticism of him, but the rest of us want to make sure that he doesn’t run, to destroy him if he does, and to weaken his current influence on the party, party positions, and influence in choosing the 2016 candidate IF he doesn’t run himself.
I doubt Mitt will have much influence choosing the next nominee. The same factors will be in play this time as every other time.
That may mean the result isn't one you'd like. But then you'll find somebody to blame for it, and Romney's as good as anybody else.
Since you get so many posts challenging your endless defenses and covers for Mitt Romney, you just think that we conservatives at FR are obsessed with him.
LOL, yes Romney is to blame for much during his political career, promoting abortion fundraising for and supporting democrats, and losing an election that the GOP couldn’t lose.
It sure didn’t help when your man came out against the party’s prolife platform and followed up with running prochoice ads in three battleground states that he then lost, but we prolifers don’t want to appear obsessed with such issues in your eyes.
It’s a bet. The media is covering up for Gruber, in order to cover up for Obama and ObamaCare. They are not going go after Gruber on RomneyCare.
But who was the candidate in the race who could have done better? Gingrich? Santorum? Cain? Bachmann? Perry? One of them might have picked up some votes Romney didn't get, but they'd have lost others he did win.
There wasn't some untapped reserve of conservative anti-Romney voters who one of the actual candidates Republican candidates could have massed to win the election. There wasn't some great unbeatable Republican out there who Romney deprived of the nomination. But if there had been, then you blew it, spending all your time attacking Romney, rather than building up a better candidate.
Romney isn't running next time. If you think you have some kind of positive influence around here and that your efforts aren't simply counter-productive and destructive, maybe you could put your energies into finding a decent candidate for next time, rather than simply beating a dead horse. By attacking last cycle's candidate over and over again, you just become irrelevant to the process.
LOL, some things never change, and you defending liberals and Romney is certainly one of those never changing things.
You are obsessed with defending Mitt Romney, even now for the 2016 cycle.
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